New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-16

ironclad sull it would be something OF a test II,
the other hand the company should be uLaOle TO
fail to destroy it after striking it, then the question
would be definitely settled
SEEN AND HEARD IN MANY PLACES.
Tho TALL Iank Scrgeant-at-Arms OF the United
States Senate Colonel w. T. Canaday, OF North caro-
lima, was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel recently
bat sOon returned to Washington The he, colonel Set
Senator sherman can carry two or three out OF
these four Southern states, North Carolina, Virginia
Coonei Canaciay sand 81 have seen senator sherman
since the Ohio Convention. He says that Governor
majority. The stories of friction between senator
Sherman and Judge Foraker are quite groundless.
Even the Governor has Presidential aspirations II
would he fatal to him to anagonl1e Mr. She man. He
Can only h9e ,or shy snch preiernent 1E iIS sa
has any chance"
Southern gentleman active In many business enter
prises in Georgia and Alabama tells me that there has
been immense development in electric lighting In all tho
cities If the Southern States At time 1t looked
electric lights would su0ersede gas altogether but since
the American Electric Manufacturing Company began
TO urge on gas COMPANIES the wisdom OF using eectr.
light plants In cOnunctcn vita gas the CT assumption OF
both lights appears TO have Increased and is rapidly ID
creasiDg
Notwithstanding the hot weather during the present
summer. and the unusual stringency in the money
market the American Electric Manu- acuring Company,
OF NewYok is receiving very large orders for electric
lighting apparatus. During the last orders for
dynamo machines and lamps were received as follows
National Machinery Company of Denver Col. 80 lights
Ashtabula Water Works Company AShtabula Ohio 90
lights: A r. Williams Toronto, Canada, % lights;
Jacob Reeds Sons Philadelphia 80 lg IT'S Joliet EIec
tro Light Company Jol et Ill. 200 lights; Bath Elec
trio Light Company. Bath Me-. 80 lights; Shelbyvill
Water Works Company. shelbyvile. ILL.,. 30 hight Os
wcgo Gas Company, Oswego, n: Y, so lights; Seattle
Illuminating Company, Augusta. Ga, 100 lights:
Badger Electric Light Company. Keokuk Iowa, 60
lights; Australian American Electric Light and Power
Company. sydney Ausr a. 500 lights. Nearly all the
home orders above enumerated have been competed Tor
very strongly other companies These orders includ
switch boards, cutOu boxes and other material and
American Company, amount TO about $4,000. From
this the extent If the business which the American Com
pamy doing at home and abroad. and ITS rapid in
crease be easily judged The orders which the com
pany is now receiVihE. ana the teIrs lo .He
pany alone will he doubled during the coming year
What are other companies dolngi
1t is evident that electric arc lighting. as a
substitute for gas for street illumination
10 making great progress throughout the entire
United States The streets OF many Of our most enter
prlsing cities now entirely illuminated with the
electric light 1t is generally acknowledged that
the electric light will entirely supersede gas for
street lighting; indeed, this inevitable. Gas com
adopting the electric light and combining it with their
gas business During the past week franchises have
been granted by city AMI contracts let for
lighting the public by the American system. for
OF in Bath Me-, Joliet ILL., and thehyyille,
Ill. The Oswego Gas Company OF Osweg0 -. " mas
into line with the American Company. in combining
gas with electric lignting and has ordered the American
apparatus for lighting the streets OF Oswego The city
OF Rome. n. y. last week granted franchise to the
American Company for establishing !hts on the streets
city. The American Company - now establish
ing branch Offices in Lonlon. Paris ana sydney with
ma IN AT
likely that Franco American Company Will soon
he organized to manufacture the American apparatus In
France.
The Editor OF The Judge l. ~ Gregory who was for
number OF years the E1torin- Chief Of The Daily
GrapAic He makes Long Branch his resort and
comes New-York daily The writer's and cartoonists
The Jdg obliged to keep keen eye the larger
political movements the country. Ia chatting Mr..
Gregory expressed the decided opinion that Mr. Clcve
straine, his Mugwump relations TO the point OF
alienation AMI that he has made many enemies nong
Democrats themselves that II will be impossible for
him to compass n reelection " should have much
Of Governor Hill Presidential candidate"
said Mr. Gregory, but he has no chance OF nomina-
ton against Mr.. Cleveland"
George ii. valiant, OF the Erie Raway,was formerly
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern general Offices
Cleveland lie has grown up in the railroad business
In appearance he is the picture of physical yigor
being an athletic man, above medium height, finely
proportional and We'll developed He has face
whitehead in color by )ce work, black hair, mustache
aud eyes. Mr.. valiant Is spending the summer at sra
bright. Coming up the boat or Two he told
That he nothing disturbing III general railroad
affairs. An Inspection Of earnings said he is sui
convince any that the business improv
ing Tue month OF August Will show still further n
provenent"
MR.. HUNTING'S CONDITION SERIOUS.
The condition of Nathaniel L. Hunting OF the Murray
Hill Hotel. who stricken with aplopexy at his